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I mainly want to clean other people's feeds. There are an enormous amount of people that I need to undergo an algorithm detox.


Yeah, there's always someone saying "Just delete your Facebook account" as if that solves the underlying "Facebook is actively encouraging divisiveness" problem.


My mother-in-laws Facebook feed is full of fake news - from the left, politically. My own mom doesn’t have a Facebook, but she still manages to balance out the universe with fake news from the right on her YouTube feed.

The internet is a mistake for a lot of people and I don’t think we can fix that.




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